Improvement in combined shovel axd  dung-fork



Letters Patent No. 106,464, dated August 16, 1870. i

`IMPR'ovEMENT 1N `COMBINED sHovEL AND--DUNG-EQRK.

m The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent aud making part 0f the Same forked end of the handle A, and there pivoted by means of a pin or bolt passing through them.

This projection C is provided with two lugs or ratch- Hook'; and do hereby declare that full, clear, and exact description'thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing slotted et its .outer-end, is secured to the handle A, so that one of the lugs a may project through its slot, and thus the jaws 'be held securely either in a, straight or rectangular position from the handle.

Between the jaws B B the tines E E are secured, by means of two screws, b I), which can' readily be removed, thetines taken out, and the shovel G inserted and fhstened in their place.

H :Living thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the slotted handle. A,'ja,ws B

this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the constellation and arrangement of a, combined shovel,

dung-fork, and hook, as will be hereinafter fully set orth.

seme, I

B, projection C, lugs a a, spring bar D, and the mo\'- able tine-s E and set-screws I1 b, all constructed to operate substantially als set forth. v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I here 'hereunto set my hand this 25th day of February, 1870.

JESSE CARPENTER.

Figure l is a slde view, :md Figure 2, a front view of my invention. A represents the handle, which is slotted or forked at its lower end, as seen in g. 2. B are two jaws, made of 0 pieces firmly secured 't base a. circular projecti ne piece, or of two ogether, and having at their on, C,which is inserted in the Witnesses JOSEPH CARPENTER, JOHN CHAMBER.

et-teethQ-'a a, as shown in tig. 1, and a. spring-bnr, D, 

